 Gololcha has 113 kilometers of dry-weather and no all-weather roads, for an average of road density of 65.7 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.It is one of two woredas in this Zone where the population has no access to drinking water.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 172,176, of whom 87,785 were men and 84,391 were women; 3,472 or 2.02% of its population were urban dwellers.